zurichisstained (u/zurichisstained)

zurichisstained commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Remote: Yes, but open to hybrid roles as well

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, React, Node.js, Python, CSS, HTML, Postgres

Résumé/CV: https://vattuo.net/resume.pdf

Email: mike@vattuo.net

I'm a full-stack engineer with 15 years of experience, looking for my next role at a product-based company, ideally as a senior or staff frontend or full-stack engineer.

If you think my experience lines up with what you're looking for, please reach out!

zurichisstained commented on Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain news.mit.edu/2025/your-br... · Posted by u/gmays

grumpy-de-sre · 2 months ago

We're expecting our first in a few months.

NGL I'm low key wondering if my messed up natural rhythm of 9pm-4am is going to be potentially handy.

zurichisstained · 2 months ago

I have a similar natural rhythm, or I should say "had". For the first year, especially the first few months, it was a godsend (for my wife, especially), but now that we're in a fairly consistent sleep routine with our two year old (~8pm-7am), I've shifted to something more like 8pm-1am out of necessity.

Although... I was up until 4am and got up at 6:30am and feel surprisingly great, so it still happens from time to time. :)

zurichisstained commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

zurichisstained · 3 months ago

  Location: Brooklyn, NY
  Remote: Yes, but open to hybrid roles as well
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, React, Node.js, Python, CSS, HTML, Postgres
  Résumé/CV: https://vattuo.net/resume.pdf
  Email: mike@vattuo.net

I'm a full-stack engineer with 15 years of experience, looking for my next role at a product-based company.

If you think my experience lines up with what you're looking for, please reach out!

zurichisstained commented on The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/swyx

dr_kretyn · 7 months ago

I'm slightly confused by your example. What's the actual prompt? Is your expectation that a text model is going to know how to perform the exact song in audio?

zurichisstained · 7 months ago

Ohhh absolutely not, that would be pretty wild - I just wanted to see if it could understand musical notation enough to come up with the correct melody.

I know there are far better ways to do gen AI with music, this was just a joke prompt that worked far better than I expected.

My naive guess is all of the guitar tabs and signal processing info it's trained on gives it the ability to do stuff like this (albeit not very well).

zurichisstained commented on The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/swyx

zurichisstained · 7 months ago

Wow, I love this benchmark - I've been doing something similar (as a joke for and much less frequently), where I ask multiple models to attempt to create a data structure like:

``` const melody = [ { freq: 261.63, duration: 'quarter' }, // C4 { freq: 0, duration: 'triplet' }, // triplet rest { freq: 293.66, duration: 'triplet' }, // D4 { freq: 0, duration: 'triplet' }, // triplet rest { freq: 329.63, duration: 'half' }, // E4 ] ```

But with the intro to Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple. Then I run it through the Web Audio API and see how it sounds.

It's never quite gotten it right, but it's gotten better, to the point where I can ask it to make a website that can play it.

I think yours is a lot more thoughtful about testing novelty, but its interesting to see them attempt to do things that they aren't really built for (in theory!).

https://codepen.io/mvattuone/pen/qEdPaoW - ChatGPT 4 Turbo

https://codepen.io/mvattuone/pen/ogXGzdg - Claude Sonnet 3.7

https://codepen.io/mvattuone/pen/ZYGXpom - Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini is by far the best sounding one, but it's still off. I'd be curious how the latest and greatest (paid) versions fare.

(And just for comparison, here's the first time I did it... you can tell I did the front-end because there isn't much to it!) https://nitter.space/mvattuone/status/1646610228748730368#m

zurichisstained commented on Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees techcrunch.com/2015/11/06... · Posted by u/thepoet

zurichisstained · 10 years ago

As an early intern, I wonder if the stock that I got after being let go from these guys will ever be worth a lick. :-/

zurichisstained commented on Canvid.js – tiny library for playing video on canvas elements gka.github.io/canvid/... · Posted by u/callumlocke

zurichisstained · 10 years ago

Ha, just spent some time figuring out how to do this myself -- going to take a look and compare. Sounds really neat!

zurichisstained commented on Theranos, Facing Criticism, Says It Has Changed Board Structure nytimes.com/2015/10/29/bu... · Posted by u/uptown

thrownaway2424 · 10 years ago

"Video Doctor Bill Frist", I can't help but read it that way. Look it up if y'all are too young to remember.

The fact that anyone would associate with Bill Frist in any way has always let me to skepticism about Theranos.

zurichisstained · 10 years ago

You're referring to this? Definitely a bit of an eyebrow-raising moment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48119-2005Mar...

zurichisstained commented on Ask HN: Anxiety is limiting my enjoyment of a wonderful career. Can you relate? · Posted by u/awaythrow15

delavara · 11 years ago

I am diagnosed with Pure-O OCD and can relate to the constant fear. It's terrible and difficult to explain to someone. It sucks and sometimes I had to go home from work because the ruminating overwhelmed. I've had coworkers notice that I seem very distracted and take it personally until I tell them what's going on. The fears ranged from being an imposter to various other health concerns that weren't related to work in the least.

I'm currently seeing a psychiatrist and taking medication for my OCD and have explained my conditions to my higher ups so they would have a better understanding. I also started seeing a cognitive behavioral psychiatrist who had me doing exposure therapy to reduce my fear response to triggering stimuli. I've had significant improvements since i've started treatment, and now each day doesn't feel like the end of the world, but I still have moments of deep panic from time to time that are more manageable. I know you aren't seeking medical help which I completely respect, but I hope knowing that you aren't alone helps in some way.

zurichisstained · 11 years ago

I also have a Pure-O diagnosis, and I totally know what you mean by having a hard time explaining it - it's such a painful conundrum. Glad that you're doing CBT - being able to catch those obsessions and let them dissipate by acknowledging them is super key to getting through it.

Glad you're seeing improvement!

zurichisstained commented on Ask HN: Anxiety is limiting my enjoyment of a wonderful career. Can you relate? · Posted by u/awaythrow15

zurichisstained · 11 years ago

I don't usually have enough knowledge on most of the subjects on Hacker News to make a useful comment, but I can absolutely relate to your situation.

I'm a freelance developer with two steady retainers, I have a wonderful partner, and I play in an up-and-coming rock band; I'm doing very well, from an outside perspective. However, for the past few months, I was unable to refill my antidepressant prescription during my transition to CoveredCA (or, at least wasn't sure how to do so, derp), which led me back into a pretty bad case of my depression, anxiety, and obsessive/compulsive behavior.

When I don't take my medication, I can hardly think straight for more than a few minutes at a time before I'm thrust into a really mentally exhausting power cycle of automatic negative thoughts, which usually results in intense physical discomfort and a generally unpleasant demeanor. I get rude and withdrawn, and often binge on comfort foods and mind-numbing television to deal with the fact that I feel absolutely no pleasure in life.

Fortunately, I figured out my medication situation and I'm feeling a lot better. A little embarrassed about some of the work that I produced during that time, but that's life!

I've found that in addition to medication, CONSISTENT exercise and diet and >7 hours of sleep are necessities for me, and if you aren't doing those before the medication, you should give it a try to see if it's enough for you to function well. It's really hard to do this when you don't have a regular routine, as I've come to discover, but you just sort of have to start forcing yourself to be on a schedule of some sort, or plan for when your schedule is going to be somewhat erratic.

Also, seeing a therapist is super beneficial, and I frankly think most people would benefit from seeing one. It really helps you to realize that your "crazies" aren't that crazy, and it's okay to have irrational thoughts and acknowledge them.